The Ninth Wave
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Key facts
- Artist
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Medium
- Oil-on-canvas
- Dimensions
- 221 cm × 332 cm (87 in × 131 in)
- Location
- State Russian Museum , St. Petersburg
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- painting
- Genre
- marine art
- Depicts
- Sun
- Material used
- canvas
- Creator
- Ivan Aivazovsky
- Collection
- Russian Museum
- Location
- Russian Museum
- Image
- Hovhannes Aivazovsky - The Ninth Wave - Google Art Project.jpg
- Height
- 221
- Width
- 332
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- Commons category
- The Ninth Wave by Ivan Aivazovsky
- inception
- 1850-01-01
- name in kana
- だいきゅうのはとう
- native label
- Девятый вал
- inventory number
- Ж-2202
- title
- The Ninth Wave
- copyright status
- public domain
- described at URL
- rusmuseumvrm.ru/data/collections/painting/18_19/zh_2202
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Encyclopedic overview
The Ninth Wave (Russian: Девятый вал, Dyevyatiy val) is an 1850 painting by Russian marine painter Ivan Aivazovsky. It is his best-known work.
The title refers to an old sailing expression referring to a wave of incredible size that comes after a succession of incrementally larger waves.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “The Ninth Wave” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.